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STS
Program in Science,
Technology, and Society
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Leon Trilling
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E51-093
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617-253-7481
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Professor Trilling received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the California
Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering, 1944 and
Aeronautics, 1948). He taught at the California Institute of
Technology and was a Fulbright Scholar in Paris before coming to
MIT in 1951. He joined the STS faculty in 1978. He founded the
Integrated Studies Program at MIT and co-directed the New Liberal
Arts Program. He is a senior staff member of The Institute for
Learning and Teaching (TILT) at MIT. His research centers on the
development of jet propelled airliners and the role of science and
mathematics curriculum in the middle school.
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